About us:

The Recruitment team sits within the wider People Services department within King’s College London University. We are a central team of 14 who handle the recruitment for the University and its various faculties / directorates/schools.

We are currently undertaking a recruitment transformation and implementing new policies and processes to improve the overall recruitment experience for candidate and hiring manager.

About the role:

The purpose of this role is to provide extensive administrative support throughout the end-to-end recruitment process in collaboration with the relevant Recruitment Advisor. This role will work closely with a Recruitment Advisor to manage the recruitment of an allocated faculty/school/directorate of the University.

This is a fast paced, high volume, administrative role and strong attention to detail and organisation skills will be required to be successful in this role. You will be responsible for ensuring that accurate contractual correspondence is issued to staff following employee lifecycle changes and stored appropriately on HR files/systems.

You will also be responsible for providing customer service responses using our internal communication platforms to track/respond to queries within agreed Service Level timeframes.

About you:

The successful candidate will have strong attention to detail and organization skills with the ability to manage their own workload independently.

A proficiency with MS Excel and reporting will stand a candidate in good stead as you will be required to run regular reports to identify and manage your workload in this role.

Customer service skills will also be beneficial for candidates as this is an applicant facing role and you will need to liaise with and provide support to any potential applicants.

We are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

1. Educated to A level standard (or equivalent) with proficiency in English and Mathematics
2. Strong attention to detail with high levels of accuracy in delivery of work
3. Strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel, Outlook and Word
4. Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage large workloads independently
5. Experience of delivering multiple priorities and working under pressure to tight deadlines
6. Experience providing high volume recruitment administration
7. High level of interpersonal and communication skills and an ability to work and communicate effectively with a diverse range of people

Desirable criteria

1. Knowledge of HR best practice and previous experience of working within a HR setting
2. Knowledge higher education policies and previous experience of working in a higher education or comparable setting

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge, and experience required can be found in the Job Description document provided at the bottom of the next page after you click “Apply Now”. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further information

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘How we Recruit’ pages.

We reserve the right to close this advert as early as 13th May based upon the number of applications received.

We are not able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK.